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we are them and they did not hijack american or american foreign policy but did what we wanted that is one of the reasons we had forgotten them if we want to find who was to blame of what the dulles brothers left behind rather than point a finger at the dulles brothers on the wall baby look in the of the year would be more effective turco . but as a first force was missionary calvinism the dulles brothers drop in the parsonage their father was a clergyman and so was their father and great-grandfather many great-uncle's and also missionaries' the grandfather went off to india to convert that he then sand at home they always had missionaries on their way back from china or the middle east faugh it was a burst in the missionary ketose. this was not just plant but a very specific form and it had to essential principles. the first is the world is made up of good and evil forces. christiansen not have the right to sit home and hope that good triumphs over evil you half -- evil you have to convert those and bring them to the white if you don't do that you are not fulfilling the purpose for wh
we are them and they did not hijack american or american foreign policy but did what we wanted that is one of the reasons we had forgotten them if we want to find who was to blame of what the dulles brothers left behind rather than point a finger at the dulles brothers on the wall baby look in the of the year would be more effective turco . but as a first force was missionary calvinism the dulles brothers drop in the parsonage their father was a clergyman and so was their father and...
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kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator game. it was the book that he published in 1960 called the strategy of peace, which is a compilation of this in a speech. i was astounded his speeches on foreign policy because they were really remarkable documents. i mean, he's on and on tough issues. he put them in a really sophisticated, historical context. he would kendis the array of possible solutions and would offer a really detailed plan about how they should go forward on a particular issue. and there's a couple that just want to touch on briefly. the first one, and it is ast
kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator...
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kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator game. it was the book that he published in 1960 called the strategy of peace, which is a compilation of this in a speech. i was astounded his speeches on foreign policy because they were really remarkable documents. i mean, he's on and on tough issues. he put them in a really sophisticated, historical context. he would kendis the array of possible solutions and would offer a really detailed plan about how they should go forward on a particular issue. and there's a couple that just want to touch on briefly. the first one, and it is ast
kennedy as a foreign policy senator. think that might be particularly interesting to this group here. as i suggested earlier, kennedy love foreign affairs, history. this was his first love. i had a wonderful interview with harris wofford was a former senator. he was also an assistant of kennedy's when kennedy was a senator. kennedy could not get enough of foreign policy. it was the one issue that just really, really set them. my first real appreciation of kennedy as a foreign policy senator...
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clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he brought to the right wing and abolishing the arms control and disarmed the agency. those we need in washington for the making of policy and he expanded nato you're taking the military and a that is a factor or not and bring more members to draw closer to russia and even bring in as george bush did the former hud republics of the soviet union into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about this and he lost his nerve on the things the country needed to do in terms of international agreements need to be a part of the accord and signed a comprehensive test ban tre
clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he...
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jimmy carter made it the centerpiece of the foreign policy. he took the first step to the peace in the middle east with the camp david accord. he was hurt by the iranian hostage crisis but it did bring them back alive. he is the best past president of modern times. humor, not much. but his mother supplied the laughs when she said sometimes when i look at my children i wish i had remained a virgin. [laughter] and i like what castaneda said. she said i don't mind carter being born again but did he have to come back as himself? [laughter] and i remember interviewing ms. lillian, carper's mother in georgia in 1976. she was still fuming over the women correspondence who had the labor that the campaign promise never to lie and kept asking why does he really mean by that? finally he said do you why? i might tell a little white lie. what do you mean cracks and public suspiration she said do you remember when you came through that door and i told you how beautiful you looked? [laughter] well, that is a beautiful little white lie. ronald reagan turned t
jimmy carter made it the centerpiece of the foreign policy. he took the first step to the peace in the middle east with the camp david accord. he was hurt by the iranian hostage crisis but it did bring them back alive. he is the best past president of modern times. humor, not much. but his mother supplied the laughs when she said sometimes when i look at my children i wish i had remained a virgin. [laughter] and i like what castaneda said. she said i don't mind carter being born again but did...
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policy debacles there is a problem there. the secretary of defense to orchestrated the escalation of the 30 years later spoke of his regret we could count listen that it was a failure of the imagination to realize if french were the best informed westerners and we deny take them seriously because we assumed they had in for us. as the book recounts i went to their records and the french archives and what the advisers were telling him and they were not saying those americans had no coulter but what they said was they analyzed the intelligence the rich getting from vietnam vietnamese exiles were concentrated in paris they had a lot of good information and tried to step -- help with us but we could not hear it. >>host: are there times with other nations in type feelings the entire roman empire? >> that is the right question to ask and in that era of the golden age of the british empire officials will talk about the notion of why they encountered resistance in the indian colony but the explanation was when people rise up for criti
policy debacles there is a problem there. the secretary of defense to orchestrated the escalation of the 30 years later spoke of his regret we could count listen that it was a failure of the imagination to realize if french were the best informed westerners and we deny take them seriously because we assumed they had in for us. as the book recounts i went to their records and the french archives and what the advisers were telling him and they were not saying those americans had no coulter but...
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i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer the president on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say is he believed in the big-play. we call it a hail mary pass. china was the huge risk. so he had a lot to offer. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was difficult for the tapes to be available. richard nixon, by the way, he was totally in his right to assume that the tapes belonged to him. because every president until richard nixon on their papers. they didn't know that there were kennedy tapes until the nixon tapes were released and the kennedy family then told them that, you know that scene in the warehouse? well, the national archives didn't even know. president kennedy, president johnson, they assumed that the tapes that they were making would belong to them. well, when he cut a deal to try to get back the tapes, congress intervened and passed a special law. the nixon library is the only one covered by one law. that law stipulated that members of the public have the right to get an information. president nixon then sued. and it was
i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer the president on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say is he believed in the big-play. we call it a hail mary pass. china was the huge risk. so he had a lot to offer. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was difficult for the tapes to be available. richard nixon, by the way, he was totally in his right to assume that the tapes belonged to him. because every president until richard nixon on their papers. they didn't...
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i think a much more less ambitious foreign policy and a foreign policy that's premised on the notion of of limits to what american military power can accomplish. i think that is the answer. so i don't think at least over these last ten years of war that the american people have been morally connected to these two wars like they were with regard to vietnam. your other point about time and how long these kinds of wars take, you're right. i mean, a rational strategy that sought to use armed nation building or counterinsurgency to achieve -- if that's -- to achieve a policy aim, then a rational strategy would say and come out front and be honest about it that if we're going to apply armed nation building to keep al-qaeda at bay in afghanistan, then it is going to take a long time. and it's not going to take 18 months or eight years or 18 years. we're talking about a multigenerational effort. but my point in my talk all along was if we're doing strategy right, the way i explained it, and especially with regard to afghanistan, we have this very, very limited core policy aim which was the d
i think a much more less ambitious foreign policy and a foreign policy that's premised on the notion of of limits to what american military power can accomplish. i think that is the answer. so i don't think at least over these last ten years of war that the american people have been morally connected to these two wars like they were with regard to vietnam. your other point about time and how long these kinds of wars take, you're right. i mean, a rational strategy that sought to use armed nation...
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economic policy. >> host: foreign economic policy. >> guest: foreign economic policy. >> host: you concentrated on the economics. >> guest: indeed. in particular i look at the administration monetary policy, the trade policy, as well as the approach to the cubs. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: gosh! what did i learn? i learned it was a very interesting volume for me to do. i had done the foreign economic policy volume dealing with the nixon-/ford administration. clearly it was my specialty. and i was very interested to see how a lot of the stories were finished. stories i had seen that started during the early 18970 and see them playout. it was interesting to see similarity of approach. differences in approach between the republican administration as well as a democratic administration. and i learned, i guess i take away sort of some of the sort of big themes and big lessons -- big themes i discovered during the time. i took away one of the big themes they took away was how the carter administration dealt with the variety of the major challenges that it faced in the global economy. and t
economic policy. >> host: foreign economic policy. >> guest: foreign economic policy. >> host: you concentrated on the economics. >> guest: indeed. in particular i look at the administration monetary policy, the trade policy, as well as the approach to the cubs. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: gosh! what did i learn? i learned it was a very interesting volume for me to do. i had done the foreign economic policy volume dealing with the nixon-/ford...
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policies in the united states. and it was an official concern of the u.s. government and especially the cold war when we try to have a scientific approach to measure opinion to analyze the source of resistance to the united states to come up with policies to combat it. but it is as lofty category of analysis that reduces or deducts from the sum total knowledge but full diversity is the same and the problem is they don't think like us or use reasoning. they are irrational. their hot blooded, prisoners of their emotion. not because we fought a war with mexico and a calf of the territory or in international disputes which we could argue but anti-americanism is a way to look at the world as a mayor. we have a monologue we want it to tell us we're the fairest of them all. that makes an excellent fairy tale that is not very effective. >>host: have been talking with american university professor friedman rethink anti-americanism, the history of an exceptional concept in american foreign relations. here is the cover publis
policies in the united states. and it was an official concern of the u.s. government and especially the cold war when we try to have a scientific approach to measure opinion to analyze the source of resistance to the united states to come up with policies to combat it. but it is as lofty category of analysis that reduces or deducts from the sum total knowledge but full diversity is the same and the problem is they don't think like us or use reasoning. they are irrational. their hot blooded,...
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has written eloquently on foreign policy and religious freedom. time for one more question here. perhaps in the front row, we have a hand without a microphone. microphone approaching. we only have a moment left. [inaudible] i was the president of the freedom coalition. i do a lot of other things -- [inaudible] i want to mention something about the state department. a little history -- we have an infiltration of islammic -- i'm concerned about that. that needs to be stated [inaudible] she has a strong link to the muslim brotherhood. something broke yesterday within john kerry son-in-law it department come out in the vetting process. his son-in-law is an iranian-american with close relative in iran. that's a break down of the betting process. and so i'll ask if you're concerned about this. i would have to know more about the iranian. most iranian americans are strong opponent of the iranian regime. so i don't know about this person. this could be a problem too inerm of pressure and blackmail. i could be concerned about that. i would say on the state
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to institutions that we generally need in washington for the making of foreign policy. and of course, the expanded nato. it made no sense and the cold war is ending. it took credit for the winning of the cold war and more members from russia, even as george bush did, the former republic of the soviet union. into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about that. and then finally clinton lost his nerve on things of this country needed to do in terms of international agreements. we need to be part of this be part of this ban on cluster bombs. all of the nations have signed these packs. it is what they call the rogue nations, and then we have the united states. then we get to george bush, and it is possible to talk about those eight years. the fact that this country reelected him does not say very much for any of us anywhere. always had misuse of intelligence to a certain degree. the mexican war in the 1840s, the spanish-american war. in vietnam as well. that was based on the misuse of intelligence. but you never had systematic distortion of intelligence t
to institutions that we generally need in washington for the making of foreign policy. and of course, the expanded nato. it made no sense and the cold war is ending. it took credit for the winning of the cold war and more members from russia, even as george bush did, the former republic of the soviet union. into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about that. and then finally clinton lost his nerve on things of this country needed to do in terms of international agreements....
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>> he understood foreign policy issues very role with the good schooling yet developed an appreciation of how congress works. he spent 40 years there. and exactly the second u.s. senator to win the presidency before him it was of the warren harding 1920 and since then is barack obama 2008. that is not unnatural jumping off point but kennedy could use it to advance his ambition of. >> host: the book is jfk and the senate. [applause] thank you for that lovely introduction. and also for coming out on a school might. i know how hard it is to do that if you have kids or not. also for postdate this event i would like to make a quick plug if you have any changes in your pocket by a book to support your local independent bookstore.
>> he understood foreign policy issues very role with the good schooling yet developed an appreciation of how congress works. he spent 40 years there. and exactly the second u.s. senator to win the presidency before him it was of the warren harding 1920 and since then is barack obama 2008. that is not unnatural jumping off point but kennedy could use it to advance his ambition of. >> host: the book is jfk and the senate. [applause] thank you for that lovely introduction. and also...
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the foreign policy issues very well. and i think he developed an appreciation for how congress works. he was very clear that he wanted to move on and in fact only second in the u.s. senate are in before that the only one who had done it was one harding in 1920. and since then, the only one who did it was barack obama in 2008. so the senate isn't really a natural jumping off point for the presidency on a yet kennedy found a way to use it to advance his political ambitions. >> the name of the book is pathway to the presidency and the author is john shaw. >> it is a bear cost of american political life. often 2% of members came from working-class accounts and gone into politics and wound up in congress. so flash forward to the present day. spending less than 2% of their career, doing industry service jobs and this is one thing that has not changed at all. lots of different aspects of the political process. >> broadcast television, cable news, senate elections, money in politics, and all of this is happening. including in th
the foreign policy issues very well. and i think he developed an appreciation for how congress works. he was very clear that he wanted to move on and in fact only second in the u.s. senate are in before that the only one who had done it was one harding in 1920. and since then, the only one who did it was barack obama in 2008. so the senate isn't really a natural jumping off point for the presidency on a yet kennedy found a way to use it to advance his political ambitions. >> the name of...
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she's signed with publisher simon and schuster to write a book about foreign policy touching on her experiences during the killing of osama bin laden and the libya conflict. the book is set to hit shelfs in 2014. stay up-to-date by liking us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. or follow us on twitter @booktv. you can also visit our web site, it's booktv.org and click on news about books. >> retired major general john borling is next on booktv. he shares husband experiences and the poetry he mentally composed and memory rised during his six-and-a-half year imprison ment at the hanoi hilton. this is about an hour, 15 minutes. >> john borling is a highly decorated retired air force major general who has served in high-level staff positions. fighter pilot, he graduated from the naval academy and was a white house fellow. during the vietnam war, he was shot down by ground fire, seriously injured. he was captured while trying to evade and spent over six-and-a-half years as a p.o.w. in hanoi. after a long career in the air force, he now occupies leadership positions in business organizations including
she's signed with publisher simon and schuster to write a book about foreign policy touching on her experiences during the killing of osama bin laden and the libya conflict. the book is set to hit shelfs in 2014. stay up-to-date by liking us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. or follow us on twitter @booktv. you can also visit our web site, it's booktv.org and click on news about books. >> retired major general john borling is next on booktv. he shares husband experiences and the poetry...
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it doesn't make foreign policy priority. i don't understand why the president did not go to the summit. if he decided not to negotiate with republicans, he was putting himself above the battle and a subtly suggesting that it is up to the congress to work out the difficulties i think the foreign policy would be a priority the responsible thing for him to do would be to go and reassure the other leaders that this crisis would be resolved and that america remains the only superpower. i was really offended by the president talking about american exceptional was some only several weeks ago in the situation where the administration clearly does not think that if you're talking about being exceptional you have to act responsibly otherwise those words have no meaning. when senator obama in 2008 began reading on primary after another, the future first lady michelle obama said that this was the first time she was proud of america. when she was questioned about the statement which was pretty remarkable has a presidential contender, for
it doesn't make foreign policy priority. i don't understand why the president did not go to the summit. if he decided not to negotiate with republicans, he was putting himself above the battle and a subtly suggesting that it is up to the congress to work out the difficulties i think the foreign policy would be a priority the responsible thing for him to do would be to go and reassure the other leaders that this crisis would be resolved and that america remains the only superpower. i was really...
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and kennedy invoked jfk tax cuts and the jfk foreign policy and he said repeatedly whenever i talk about president kennedy, my opponents tear their hair out and going through president bush who also invoked kennedy for his foreign policy. you could argue whether there were accurate representations or not so i think that that is part of the greatness and the tragedy of kennedy that even though the tragedy is because he's not dead, it is something you can only speculate on what he would've been on these questions. but the greatness is that everyone is still trying to figure it out for two years later. and so i think that the best words that can capture that are actually that kennedy was a great reader of poetry and there was an elegy which included the line of what he was, he was, what he is slated to become depends upon us. and so with that, i'm happy to take your questions. [applause] [applause] >> i am a liberal from newton, massachusetts, which is what most people were when i was growing up. >> kennedy, the conservative, did he feel that half the people were takers and people were livi
and kennedy invoked jfk tax cuts and the jfk foreign policy and he said repeatedly whenever i talk about president kennedy, my opponents tear their hair out and going through president bush who also invoked kennedy for his foreign policy. you could argue whether there were accurate representations or not so i think that that is part of the greatness and the tragedy of kennedy that even though the tragedy is because he's not dead, it is something you can only speculate on what he would've been...
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have had the great society energy and commitment that johnson had because kennedy was essentially a foreign-policy president. that is to say politics can unseat you but foreign politics can kill you. he would have run against barry goldwater and would have won it did victory the way johnson did. he would have carried big democratic majorities into the house and senate with him and i think he would have gotten the big tax cut, the federal aid to education, the medicare and the civil rights bills passed. that would have put him in the lead with the most progressive 20th century presidential reformers alongside t.r. and wilson and even compared somewhat to fdr but i don't think he would have pushed beyond that. i think he would have pushed toward dÉtente. i think we would have seen dÉtente earlier with kennedy then we did with richard nixon because that cuban missile crisis was so sobering and it was so khrushchev and they make the nuclear test ban treaty which eliminated the pollution and radiation in the atmosphere and i think kennedy saw this as an opening towards a push with the soviets and he
have had the great society energy and commitment that johnson had because kennedy was essentially a foreign-policy president. that is to say politics can unseat you but foreign politics can kill you. he would have run against barry goldwater and would have won it did victory the way johnson did. he would have carried big democratic majorities into the house and senate with him and i think he would have gotten the big tax cut, the federal aid to education, the medicare and the civil rights bills...
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economic policy. >> host: foreign economic policy. >> guest: foreign economic policy. >> host: you concentrated on the economics. >> guest: indeed. in particular i look at the administration monetary policy, the trade policy, as well as the approach to the cubs. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: gosh! what did i learn? i learned it was a very interesting volume for me to do. i had done the foreign economic policy volume dealing with the nixon-/ford administration. clearly it was my specialty. and i was very interested to see how a lot of the stories were finished. stories i had seen that started during the early 18970 and see them playout. it was interesting to see similarity of approach. differences in approach between the republican administration as well as a democratic administration. and i learned, i guess i take away sort of some of the sort of big themes and big lessons -- big themes i discovered during the time. i took away one of the big themes they took away was how the carter administration dealt with the variety of the major challenges that it faced in the global economy. and t
economic policy. >> host: foreign economic policy. >> guest: foreign economic policy. >> host: you concentrated on the economics. >> guest: indeed. in particular i look at the administration monetary policy, the trade policy, as well as the approach to the cubs. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: gosh! what did i learn? i learned it was a very interesting volume for me to do. i had done the foreign economic policy volume dealing with the nixon-/ford...
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foreign policy. during his 30 years in public life and more than 25 years in the senate, senator kerry championed many issues. the senate foreign relations committee favorably reported his nomination to the senate unanimously and presented senator kerry with an honorary resolution highlighting a few of his many accomplishments. among his accomplishments are the partnership he formed with senator john mccain that led to an effort to investigate the fate of american soldiers unaccounted for in vietnam and normalize relations with a former enemy which is in essence vietnam. his leadership of difficult, sensitive and comprehensive investigations in the senate on everything from the bank of credit and commerce international and illegal money laundering to the noriega regime in panama is well known. advocating for a democratic elections in the philippines and serving with senator lugar as part of a senator delegation that uncovered the fraud that led to the ouster of president noriega. advocating for progr
foreign policy. during his 30 years in public life and more than 25 years in the senate, senator kerry championed many issues. the senate foreign relations committee favorably reported his nomination to the senate unanimously and presented senator kerry with an honorary resolution highlighting a few of his many accomplishments. among his accomplishments are the partnership he formed with senator john mccain that led to an effort to investigate the fate of american soldiers unaccounted for in...
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they are rational and we marched off in to the two foreign-policy debacles of the 20th and early 21st century. robert mcnamara, secretary of defense 30 years later spoke of his regret that we have been able to listen. he said it was a failure of the imagination to realize a french are the best informed westerners on vietnam and we didn't take them seriously because we send to didn't have an interest. as the book recounts, i would to the french archives to look at what was going on in the french foreign ministry. they have no culture in their insignificant. but they said as they analyze intelligence from vietnam 17,000 french citizens they are. exiles in paris and they try to share with us. we couldn't here because it is confusing concept we have. >> host: professor friedman a month of been times in there's another anti-nation type feelings? anti-british empire come anti-roman empire? >> guest: indeed. does the right question to ask because it should be to the use of the term we have in the court age of the british empire. perdition officials talk about anglo phobia to explain why they
they are rational and we marched off in to the two foreign-policy debacles of the 20th and early 21st century. robert mcnamara, secretary of defense 30 years later spoke of his regret that we have been able to listen. he said it was a failure of the imagination to realize a french are the best informed westerners on vietnam and we didn't take them seriously because we send to didn't have an interest. as the book recounts, i would to the french archives to look at what was going on in the french...
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have had the great society energy and commitment that johnson had because kennedy was essentially a foreign-policy president. that is to say politics can unseat you but foreign politics can kill you. he would have run against barry goldwater and would have won it did victory the way johnson did. he would have carried big democratic majorities into the house and senate with him and i think he would have gotten the big tax cut, the federal aid to education, the medicare and the civil rights bills passed. that would have put him in the lead with the most progressive 20th century presidential reformers alongside t.r. and wilson and even compared somewhat to fdr but i don't think he would have pushed beyond that. i think he would have pushed toward dÉtente. i think we would have seen dÉtente earlier with kennedy then we did with richard nixon because that cuban missile crisis was so sobering and it was so khrushchev and they make the nuclear test ban treaty which eliminated the pollution and radiation in the atmosphere and i think kennedy saw this as an opening towards a push with the soviets and he
have had the great society energy and commitment that johnson had because kennedy was essentially a foreign-policy president. that is to say politics can unseat you but foreign politics can kill you. he would have run against barry goldwater and would have won it did victory the way johnson did. he would have carried big democratic majorities into the house and senate with him and i think he would have gotten the big tax cut, the federal aid to education, the medicare and the civil rights bills...
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i just want to go back and said foreign policy. we don't have the luxury if we want to compete in the global economy we must compete. i agree with senator corker. maybe we should have been up for an economic position but will you utilize the state to try to get the president to work with us to solve the issue because this is a matter of prioritizing spending and i don't think we can continue to tax the american economy. we need economic growth but it's about prioritizing spending. i have conservative beliefs foreign aid can be useful, but we have to get our spending out of control. we utilize the position to encourage the president to work with us in good faith to solve the debt and deficit issue >> i spent six months i guess it was or five months as a member of the super committee. and i put an enormous amount of energy and hope that we would be able to get the bigger bargain. i'm not here to go through the details of why we didn't, that there was a very hard line monitor negotiating position that prevented us from being able to c
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then more recently i get more interested in american foreign policy. >> sure also a senior fellow at the u.s. joint special operations. what do you do there? >> well, i joined the special operations unit in tampa. i write on insurgency's for them , things like winning hearts and minds or some of the military practices that we use such as indirect warfare which is a fancy term. we get others to help and partner with us about things about dividing our enemies so that we don't take on all our enemies but, perhaps, use them against each other. currently i am looking into the relationship between specialw forces and the centralñv intelligence agency. >> we have not talked about a run yet. what is in your view the best policy? >> it is most formidable of all of the rogue states. and it is the most difference. the other rogue states were dictatorships, military dictatorships, some which imitated the soviet union with tracking this socialism and communism such as north korea and cuba. others were more military dictatorships such as libya, iran and iraq, but i should say, it emerged from
then more recently i get more interested in american foreign policy. >> sure also a senior fellow at the u.s. joint special operations. what do you do there? >> well, i joined the special operations unit in tampa. i write on insurgency's for them , things like winning hearts and minds or some of the military practices that we use such as indirect warfare which is a fancy term. we get others to help and partner with us about things about dividing our enemies so that we don't take on...
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military as the two-time foreign policy because they did not cause the war it was the decision of the civilian of the pentagon and the white house and the state department and the war it -- the way it played out that general petraeus and that being a hero of the iraq war and the surge in debt being the military solution to a catastrophe caused that way and as the expression -- expression goes they drink their own chalaza they can now thinking it deserved all the resources it could get and has the solution to the problem and definitely doesn't need diplomats or diplomacy. and thought it has reinvented the ending of the warsaw with world war ii we go to vietnam are varieties of war around the world but the diplomats and dip negotiating and to look at the balkans in vietnam kissinger are holbrooke were in charge and the military provided them to the with many to go to negotiations in paris with the backing of the military. so it came to be a coin strategy not only the savior of the war with a counterinsurgency of what would end the war by america's global strategy to deal with terrorism
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stories about the economy and about the foreign policy cash, etc.. what prompted me to write spin masters though was the benghazi attack. it became clear that the political news media rather than focusing on a story of foreign policy failures and the president had promised fy failing to produce eight said it significantly destroyed al qaeda and here we see the terrorists acting out. romney didn't feel that situation that well with his press conference he called it at the wrong time about the guy that runs the entire foreign policy apparatus in the united states. it really does seem he used to say that a reporter is someone else that will sell his soul for a good story but it took turns out when the story might make barack obama look bad or make his presidency looks like a failure they are going to miss stories by definition simply for the inability to see the failure to be interested .... on the editorial page recovered the way that i wanted to be covered if i have anyone to blame but myself. we are part of who we are as the washington examiner but w
stories about the economy and about the foreign policy cash, etc.. what prompted me to write spin masters though was the benghazi attack. it became clear that the political news media rather than focusing on a story of foreign policy failures and the president had promised fy failing to produce eight said it significantly destroyed al qaeda and here we see the terrorists acting out. romney didn't feel that situation that well with his press conference he called it at the wrong time about the...
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in the up of people foreign policy arena, scholars, former diplomats. it is basically a group of people. the organization has become a think tank where you have the scholars who produce policy analysis. counciliation with the is only as a member. i am with the brookings institution. host: robert from west virginia on our democratic line. you're on with shibley telhami. turn down your tv and go ahead with your question or comment. we will go to craig from california on our democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. finally the united states of america, the people were heard. gave a no on syria . do you believe or is it your opinion the real directive comes from israel for all of our controls and actions in syria and palestine? question issrael always important for the u.s.. america support for israel is one of the cornerstones of the foreign policy. ask the you do, question about the consequences for israel and consult for israel on matters that have importance. israel is a big factor in all this, including syria. israelry kerry is in briefing
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>>host: what percent of foreign policy is focused on the road? >> a great deal. it does not go. we have a problem with china from time to time or our european allies, and certainly recurrence of power struggles with the government is in russia but also very small states but because of the nuclear factor or chemical or biological, they attract a lot of attention to as a consequence we spend a disproportionate time may be some times when her to% but then in the same as the case of boris korea it comes for example, negative tension over the last three or four weeks and how it seems to be dissipating in.will reemerge later on. there are times the unit's states is focused would have to present or 40 percent of our we have the internal crisis or a political even to a and all of the attention. i could give you legislation or in economic problem but the foreign policy from the size that they are, they+ argue -- occupy a great deal of attention that it has collapsed. >> would about cuba? >>guest: at one time it was the spearpoint they were the most aggressive with nicaragua, bolivia, ev
>>host: what percent of foreign policy is focused on the road? >> a great deal. it does not go. we have a problem with china from time to time or our european allies, and certainly recurrence of power struggles with the government is in russia but also very small states but because of the nuclear factor or chemical or biological, they attract a lot of attention to as a consequence we spend a disproportionate time may be some times when her to% but then in the same as the case of...
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policy to john foster dulles, the secretary of state. so it is an interesting book but i actually think that he disapproves his own thesis which is kind of fun when you think about it. another book because i actually served in the senate in the years, many of the years covered in the last great senate which he talks about a number of senators which he thinks is a golden age in the senate in the 60's and the 70's. the characters like ted kennedy and howard baker and jacob javits and robert byrd who got things done and who reached across the aisle and were willing to break with their own party orthodoxy. a kind of been noting that we don't do that anymore very much. any documents, how much dhaka done in that spirit of collaboration and compromise. 8381 is a book by charles and it is a fascinating account of history and which the notions of the christian orthodoxy and heresy were imposed not by the churchgoers but by the leaders of the state, where the state to deplete intervened in convening the council's and insisted on the orthodoxy and
policy to john foster dulles, the secretary of state. so it is an interesting book but i actually think that he disapproves his own thesis which is kind of fun when you think about it. another book because i actually served in the senate in the years, many of the years covered in the last great senate which he talks about a number of senators which he thinks is a golden age in the senate in the 60's and the 70's. the characters like ted kennedy and howard baker and jacob javits and robert byrd...
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some members of this committee strongly opposed president obama's foreign-policy. regardless of how we may feel about the president's policies, or float on senator hagel nomination will not change those policies. there is a risk here it is that the defeat of this domination will leave the department of defense leaderless at a time when we face in this budgetary challenges in our military is engaged in combat operations overseas. such an absence of senior leaders would be unlikely to benefit either our national defense or men and away uniform, and i would add, given the recent explosion of a nuclear device by north korea, the delay in adopting this nomination and approving it, i think, will send the exact wrong message to north korea. the president needs to have a secretary of defense in him he has stressed who will give him unvarnished advice, a person of integrity and one who has a personal understanding of the consequences of decisions relative to the use of military force. senator hagel certainly has those critically important qualifications, and he is well qual
some members of this committee strongly opposed president obama's foreign-policy. regardless of how we may feel about the president's policies, or float on senator hagel nomination will not change those policies. there is a risk here it is that the defeat of this domination will leave the department of defense leaderless at a time when we face in this budgetary challenges in our military is engaged in combat operations overseas. such an absence of senior leaders would be unlikely to benefit...
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and obama keeps a lot of the national security policies he inherited. >> it seems as if you int interviewed the people. >> interviewed 250 people. everybody except for bush who chose not to be interviewed. the majority were on the record understanding it is time document what happened for the record. >> why days of fire as the title? >> that is from the president's second term inaugural address. war, terrorism, and more. so one this time we need to figure out what happened so we can figure out what happened today because we are debating the same issues under the current administration. >> here is a look at the best-selling non-fiction books. bill o'reilly tops the list with "killing jesus "and next" decades that matter". to learn more about the book watch the appearance online. third is the "pioneer who cooks" and "double down is next" and you can see an interview with that writer on our website. "the elf on the shelf" is the last book. it is a tradition. sixth on the wall street journal best-seller list, "the bully pulprit". number seven "soul healing miracles" and the guinness book of wor
and obama keeps a lot of the national security policies he inherited. >> it seems as if you int interviewed the people. >> interviewed 250 people. everybody except for bush who chose not to be interviewed. the majority were on the record understanding it is time document what happened for the record. >> why days of fire as the title? >> that is from the president's second term inaugural address. war, terrorism, and more. so one this time we need to figure out what...
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foreign policy. they had the decisions one was how to deal with the bay of pigs invasion and 51. second was how to deal with the missile crisis in 1962. the difference between night and day that went very badly. the support never materialized and was a terrible ambassador for the country and around the world but kennedy took responsibility for it. the historians that studied kennedy and in mine own research i found this to be true he concluded after the first crisis that he was in a bubble in the white house because he was listening to much to the so-called experts in the military and the intelligence community. and he realized that these people had their own little bubble that they were in and at that time they were basically hawks like you may remember some of them. but then he realized that they couldn't pay attention to them as much as they had so he brought in the inner circle at the cuban missile crisis he found his own judgment in he was skeptical and felt they led them astray before and the c
foreign policy. they had the decisions one was how to deal with the bay of pigs invasion and 51. second was how to deal with the missile crisis in 1962. the difference between night and day that went very badly. the support never materialized and was a terrible ambassador for the country and around the world but kennedy took responsibility for it. the historians that studied kennedy and in mine own research i found this to be true he concluded after the first crisis that he was in a bubble in...
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up next, ira stoll examines president in his public and foreign policy record and argues it defaults his conservative political leanings. this is just under one hour. >> it's a big thrill to be here at politics and prose, which is a great institution. thank you for having me. when i first arrived in washington it was august 1995. i was 22, and my friend, josh, let me stand his couch until i found a place of my own. he was quite kind to offer me his couch for an open any period of time. it was quite generous but at least as i recall, he or his roommates were not quite so kind to give me my own key to the house. that meant that when i came back from my days of apartment hunting, i often had some time to kill in that lovely august washington weather before josh got home from work. sussed a lot of time here in this air-conditioned bookstore. it's great to be here surrounded by so many friends and family members, quite a distinguished crowd we have here, some other authors here and a lot of newspaperman and women. there's a crowd of people here from crimson, which means i've had friendshi
up next, ira stoll examines president in his public and foreign policy record and argues it defaults his conservative political leanings. this is just under one hour. >> it's a big thrill to be here at politics and prose, which is a great institution. thank you for having me. when i first arrived in washington it was august 1995. i was 22, and my friend, josh, let me stand his couch until i found a place of my own. he was quite kind to offer me his couch for an open any period of time. it...
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foreign policy. during his 30 years in public life and more than 25 years in the senate, senator kerry has championed many issues. earlier today the senate foreign relations committee favorably reported his nomination to the senate unanimously and presented senator kerry with an honorary resolution highlighting a few of his many accomplishments. among the accomplishments are the reforms with senator john mccain that led to an effort to investigate the fate of american soldiers unaccounted for in vietnam. he normalized relation with a former enemy, which is in essence, vietnam. it is a conference of investigation in the senate on everything from the bank of credit and commerce international and illegal money laundering. advocating for democratic elections in the philippines and serving with senator dick lugar is part of the senate delegations that led to the ouster of ferdinand marcos. working with the cambodian government, they prosecuted key members. advocating for programs that help so they don't f
foreign policy. during his 30 years in public life and more than 25 years in the senate, senator kerry has championed many issues. earlier today the senate foreign relations committee favorably reported his nomination to the senate unanimously and presented senator kerry with an honorary resolution highlighting a few of his many accomplishments. among the accomplishments are the reforms with senator john mccain that led to an effort to investigate the fate of american soldiers unaccounted for...
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i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer presidents on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say about richard nixon is he believed in the big play, or you'd call it a hail mary pass. he was willing to take huge risks. not all presidents are willing to do that. i mean, china was a huge risk. detente with the soviet union the way he did it was a risk. so he had a lot to offer presidents. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was an effort to make it difficult for the tapes to become available. richard nixon, by the way, was totally in his right to assume that the tapes belonged to him because every president until richard nixon owned their papers. the national archives didn't know that there were, that there were kennedy tapes until, until the nixon tapes were released, and the kennedy family then told the national archives you know that safe in the warehouses to which we only have keyes? there are tapes in there. the national archives didn't know. and so president kennedy, president johnson and president nixon assumed that the tapes
i do believe that richard nixon had a lot to offer presidents on foreign policy. one of the things that i have to say about richard nixon is he believed in the big play, or you'd call it a hail mary pass. he was willing to take huge risks. not all presidents are willing to do that. i mean, china was a huge risk. detente with the soviet union the way he did it was a risk. so he had a lot to offer presidents. but i do believe, i know this for a fact that it was an effort to make it difficult for...
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policy thinkers. and so i made that comment not too long ago, and someone said how could that be? why would the military guys be smarter? i said, well, if for no other reason, the same reason secretary gates gave the speech that he gave out in kansas on a lecture or series two months ago when he devoted his speech to the congress and the united states putting more resources in the state department, more resources in diplomacy, more resources in soft power. because he understands as secretary of defense or anyone who wears the uniform is burden is now on our soldiers. and we have overloaded the circuits. of we've asked our military to damn near do everything. well, we should never, ever put the military in that position. not only are they not capable of doing everything, they can't. they're human. and so consequently, we're seeing a great deterioration in the quality of our army and the marines, we're doing great damage to our fort structure. and i talk about that in the book. but soft power, how do we
policy thinkers. and so i made that comment not too long ago, and someone said how could that be? why would the military guys be smarter? i said, well, if for no other reason, the same reason secretary gates gave the speech that he gave out in kansas on a lecture or series two months ago when he devoted his speech to the congress and the united states putting more resources in the state department, more resources in diplomacy, more resources in soft power. because he understands as secretary of...
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moreover, more than ever foreign-policy his economic policy. the world is competing for resources in global markets. every day that goes by where america it is uncertain about engaging in that area are unwilling to put our best foot forward, and went to demonstrate our resolve, to lead is a day in which we weaken our nation itself my plea is that we can summon across party lines without partisan diversions and economic patriotism which recognizes that americans strengthen prospects abroad depend on american strength and resolve a home. it's hard to tell the leaders of a number of countries that have to deal with imf, balance the budget, create economic order with there's none if we don't provide it for soles. it's also imperative that in implementing president obama sufficient for the world as the ends more than a decade of war and we join together to augment our message to the world. president obama and everyone of us here knows that american foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments along. we cannot allow the extraordinary good
moreover, more than ever foreign-policy his economic policy. the world is competing for resources in global markets. every day that goes by where america it is uncertain about engaging in that area are unwilling to put our best foot forward, and went to demonstrate our resolve, to lead is a day in which we weaken our nation itself my plea is that we can summon across party lines without partisan diversions and economic patriotism which recognizes that americans strengthen prospects abroad...
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american foreign policy retreat. he is briefed presidents, congress, many influential and not so intelligent people. he was born in tehran in 1960, and his family came to the united states having left tehran after the revolution. he has a bachelor's from masters , and earned his phd. well done. i won't go through your long list of accomplishments. there are special. but i would especially draw attention to a great part of your book which is the time you spent working under richard holbrooke in 20005-11 as part of the special office, special adviser on pakistan and afghanistan. special advisor to the secretary of state. there are always other offices one discovers that do the same thing you do, and that is part of the problem as you liotta your book which i found fascinating. other share how complex within islam will shape the future, forces of fortune, the rise of the new middle-class and what it will mean for our world. and in the you foretells certain great events that become the rise of sectarianism, although i di
american foreign policy retreat. he is briefed presidents, congress, many influential and not so intelligent people. he was born in tehran in 1960, and his family came to the united states having left tehran after the revolution. he has a bachelor's from masters , and earned his phd. well done. i won't go through your long list of accomplishments. there are special. but i would especially draw attention to a great part of your book which is the time you spent working under richard holbrooke in...
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a good reason that is why there is a lot of attention but it is not so much appreciate treat those foreigners well but just in terms of power do we achieve our goals? by acting unilaterally or with coalitions of different countries of force multipliers to ensure we have helped to pursue our goals and the policies we decide upon are well thought out. in 2002 with the dispute over the iraq war president of france urged americans not to go to war with iraq. he said don't go there i fought in algeria this will end up badly you'll be seen as an occupation and this will not be in your interest. what did we do? lee said the french are anti-american, they resent there star is falling so we poured french wine into the gutter and renamed the french fries as free of rise that we should dig up the boys from normandy because it is no longer a resting place and there was demonstrations what is this wave of anti-americanism? i thought that reminds me of the early '60s when the president of france charles de gaulle told the kennedy administration don't go to war in vietnam. we have been there and we know the
a good reason that is why there is a lot of attention but it is not so much appreciate treat those foreigners well but just in terms of power do we achieve our goals? by acting unilaterally or with coalitions of different countries of force multipliers to ensure we have helped to pursue our goals and the policies we decide upon are well thought out. in 2002 with the dispute over the iraq war president of france urged americans not to go to war with iraq. he said don't go there i fought in...
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you should trust in american foreign policy and in our wisdom. we know what we are doing and you should support us. they would look at you very politely and not say anything. and then we went six months back and announcing this policy there is a deadline they would say you and your policy is only good for one year they would say no, no, no, we are going to succeed in one year and then they would say but that makes all of your conclusions and arguments even less credible than before because we know that this isn't a one year game so how are you going to do it? as soon as this was done we ended up going back and saying we are starting the troop withdrawal and we are going to be gone by 2014. so, what i saw is it is almost like we were constantly talking to ourselves, this largely america headline driven it sounded good. it never convince anybody. in fact by the end what i saw is they concluded that we are confused and lack commitment. it's very dangerous for those countries to hitch their wagons to the united states wouldn't you just wait for me to
you should trust in american foreign policy and in our wisdom. we know what we are doing and you should support us. they would look at you very politely and not say anything. and then we went six months back and announcing this policy there is a deadline they would say you and your policy is only good for one year they would say no, no, no, we are going to succeed in one year and then they would say but that makes all of your conclusions and arguments even less credible than before because we...
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this was after the crisis in the foreign policy. there was a deep crisis in american governance each and we remember this is posted vietnam syndrome when the nation was reluctant in international affairs. jimmy carter has hardly improved the situation but you have to sympathize with his predicament. president obama came to power after two terms of george w. bush, which i have to say did not quite improve american global spending. at the same time the united states maintains the predominant power, no question about that pitted the united states remains a predominant economic power. that is what putin basically was talking about. in terms of the financial system we build it and continue to run it and everyone depends upon us and on the chinese. .. even if you are exceptional, you have two act and the purpose and i think when people in different countries, they're asking, what kind of barack obama are they dealing with? i got a call yesterday from a leading gentleman journalist who reminded me how obama the team immensely popular in eu
this was after the crisis in the foreign policy. there was a deep crisis in american governance each and we remember this is posted vietnam syndrome when the nation was reluctant in international affairs. jimmy carter has hardly improved the situation but you have to sympathize with his predicament. president obama came to power after two terms of george w. bush, which i have to say did not quite improve american global spending. at the same time the united states maintains the predominant...
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we would talk to people and make speeches and go to the foreign policy association and all that of course, the vietnam war was raging at that time. pauline frederick, who was, as you know, one of the great broadcasters, before this tour in 1968 said to me -- i was nervous about it. i was just back from my first tour of vietnam. she said, "well, you know, people on this, the correspondents, chancellor and that crowd are going to talk about what the president said to them last week. what you should do is tell them what a gi in the mekong delta said to you last week." i thought that was pretty sensible advice and did that and talked about what i felt was a real age of heroism. i hadn't really seen america and america's men and appreciated what they were until i saw them at war. it was a startling sight. i tried to get some of this across to an audience in san diego where we were all assembled and chancellor, who had taken an anti-war line, of course, referred to me as madame nhu, who was not exactly the most popular character at that time in our history. c-span: who was she? >> guest: well,
we would talk to people and make speeches and go to the foreign policy association and all that of course, the vietnam war was raging at that time. pauline frederick, who was, as you know, one of the great broadcasters, before this tour in 1968 said to me -- i was nervous about it. i was just back from my first tour of vietnam. she said, "well, you know, people on this, the correspondents, chancellor and that crowd are going to talk about what the president said to them last week. what you...
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the foreign policy was. even though we were in the big war or spending $100 billion a month on the war, in the end, our strategy was not governed by finishing the war. the domestic policies which basically said, you know, do what the military wants because then that's popular and the responsibility with them. we don't want to do anything risky where the president has to risk political capital. that's why you need to cage hole brooke or basically shoot down the idea of -- >> host: and they weren't sure easy to control. >> guest: eventually could say no to this and that. and but, you know, he continued to believe that this war the strategy is wrong. he thought that if we search it will exit faster and exit leave the region without anything to show for the war. it's going to hurt his more. and five years down the road you have another 9/11. it comes exactly from that region and revert back to everything we talked about in 2001, 2002. >> host: we've done a lot of criticizing. president obama and what he's done a
the foreign policy was. even though we were in the big war or spending $100 billion a month on the war, in the end, our strategy was not governed by finishing the war. the domestic policies which basically said, you know, do what the military wants because then that's popular and the responsibility with them. we don't want to do anything risky where the president has to risk political capital. that's why you need to cage hole brooke or basically shoot down the idea of -- >> host: and they...
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to that foreign policy. roosevelt, pearl harbor was a godsend to him. i'm not suggesting for a second that he in any way engineered the surprise, but it allowed him to unify the country, you see, to fight world war ii. harry truman made the mistake of losing that consensus for the fight in korea, destroyed his presidency. johnson lost the consensus for the fighting in vietnam, destroyed his presidency. bush, domestic, weapons of mass destruction that weren't there. it undermined his leadership and left him with a terribly diminished popular support, including katrina and the economic downturn, you see. we talked to obama about this, and i said to him, mr. president, if you get into one of these wars without vital public commitment and consensus, it plays havoc with your domestic agenda because you lose your hold. you lose your credibility. remember johnson's credibility gap? how do you know when lending is telling you the truth? he begins to move his lips you know he is lying. [laughter] he didn't think it w
to that foreign policy. roosevelt, pearl harbor was a godsend to him. i'm not suggesting for a second that he in any way engineered the surprise, but it allowed him to unify the country, you see, to fight world war ii. harry truman made the mistake of losing that consensus for the fight in korea, destroyed his presidency. johnson lost the consensus for the fighting in vietnam, destroyed his presidency. bush, domestic, weapons of mass destruction that weren't there. it undermined his leadership...
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what kind of foreign policy you think the u.s. should have? secretary of defense and president what would you do? >> guest: take the henry wallace approach, compassion and love of mankind, and global purpose, what he called, the century of the common man. this seems to be imperative now because we have more knowledge. the world can cooperate and has on many fronts medically certainly and economically. i think that the globalization is not about us as a bigger shark, but as cooperating. that's a century i would like to live in the to a world in which the richest 300 people are so have more wealth than the poor's 300 million. the richest 1 percent have more wealth and the bottom 90%. redistribute resources. >> guest: the bad guys, they always say the same thing. well, you can't live like that. there is always the bad guy out there. this is an old argument. goes all the way. we end up being the worst guy, we become a bad guy because no one else acts worse than we do because we don't trust anybody. and ironically because our space at this point, w
what kind of foreign policy you think the u.s. should have? secretary of defense and president what would you do? >> guest: take the henry wallace approach, compassion and love of mankind, and global purpose, what he called, the century of the common man. this seems to be imperative now because we have more knowledge. the world can cooperate and has on many fronts medically certainly and economically. i think that the globalization is not about us as a bigger shark, but as cooperating....
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monetary policies and budget deficits led to perennial, perennial foreign exchange crises, and ultimately to foreign exchange controls. foreign exchange controls in the united states, the bretton woods system groaned under the flood weight of excess u.s. dollars going abroad where they were accumulated in the official foreign exchange reserves of our trading partners. this was the period, maybe some of you remember, when the washington policymakers and economists led by academic neo-keynesians paul samuelson and walter heller, suggested that a little inflation induced by managed currency -- say 2 or 3% -- was controllable and desirable. at the end of the 1970s, inflation had reached the annualized rate of 15%. now, since the u.s. dollar was the primary reserve currency under the bretton woods treaty, foreign central banks were, in effect, required to purchase the undesired dollars in their banking systems against the creation of their own domestic money. foreign central banks held these dollars as official reserves. they didn't bury them in vault as. they promptly reinvested these dollars
monetary policies and budget deficits led to perennial, perennial foreign exchange crises, and ultimately to foreign exchange controls. foreign exchange controls in the united states, the bretton woods system groaned under the flood weight of excess u.s. dollars going abroad where they were accumulated in the official foreign exchange reserves of our trading partners. this was the period, maybe some of you remember, when the washington policymakers and economists led by academic neo-keynesians...
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let's talk about foreign policy. so, what did the founders that you talk about in the book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that again this is a matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue than the discussion and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it, and even then you had to very distinctive physicians. hamilton was pro-british and jefferson was pro french. and this is what led to huge split between those and this is how part of the federalist and the republicans were put with all sorts of other things i think that the hamiltonian position that washington accepted was america ought to be neutral had no navy didn't have any viet the time, had a strong interest in trade with both india and france with just basic body of delhi and self-interest that should remain neutral. neutrality favored the british because there is no american support for the british but a lot of americans wanted to go out and be privateers for franc
let's talk about foreign policy. so, what did the founders that you talk about in the book have to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think that again this is a matter of great dispute. there was one major foreign policy issue than the discussion and that was the war between france and england and what they were going to do about it, and even then you had to very distinctive physicians. hamilton was pro-british and jefferson was pro french. and this is what led to huge...